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Twitter therapeutics. 'I see unresolved trauma....'

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

He exhibits a pervasive pattern of instrumental threat escalation indicative of a stable coercive interpersonal style, marked by conditional intent, dominance-oriented cognition, and externalised behavioural regulation.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

@KejanHaynes

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

After m*rdering a woman inside her own home in 2010, Arnell Yearwood showered, watched p*rn on her computer, and cooked himself a plate of pasta before leaving.

Diane Zaleski was a 54-year-old recently retired legal secretary living in Union Township, New Jersey, described by those who knew her as warm, full of life, and close to her family.

On 18 November 2010, her elderly parents arrived at her home after she failed to answer calls or show up to an appointment.

They found her dead and made the frantic 911 call no parent should ever have to make.

Investigators found blood throughout the house trailing down to the basement, where Zaleski's body had been dragged.

An autopsy revealed she had suffered more than 44 st*b wounds and had been strangled. What made the scene even more disturbing was what had happened after.

After k*lling her, the perpetrator stayed in her home, did his laundry, watched p*rn*graphy on her computer, and sprayed a fire extinguisher around the house to try to cover his tracks.

The case went cold. Over 100 suspects were interviewed and cleared.

Then, on the one-year anniversary, police released fresh details to the media, and that decision cracked everything open.

A woman from out of state read the article and recognised details that matched things a social media acquaintance had told her, including that he'd committed a m*rder in New Jersey.

She called police and gave them a name: Arnell Yearwood.

Police knew the name immediately. His family lived directly across the street from Zaleski.

She had occasionally hired local kids to do chores, and Yearwood, small in stature, could easily have passed for a teenager.

When confronted, Yearwood eventually told detectives that Zaleski had let him in to do chores, and that when he suggested a romantic relationship and she rejected him, he snapped, st*bbing her with scissors and then strangling her.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years without parole.

The judge described the term as necessary to "voice society's outrage."

When he is eventually released, Yearwood is expected to be deported to his native Trinidad.

Zaleski's parents, who discovered their daughter's body, both d*ed not long after the m*rder.

[TIME @TIME]

“You really have to work so hard. It’s so hard. And I think that’s misunderstood.”

Eileen Gu, the 22-year-old Stanford student, runway model, and only action-sport athlete to win three medals apiece at two Olympic Games (Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026) has long been a subject of fascination. At Cannes Lions, she opens up about what people don't understand about being "the best" at their craft.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Charles Dickens fought his depression by walking through London at night. One October he set out at 2 in the morning and walked 30 miles, all the way to his country home in Kent. In 1860 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 150 years to catch up.

Dickens called his bad spells "spectres." They came back every time he started a new novel and sometimes hung on for months. His mood would fall apart, his sleep would collapse, and the only thing that pulled him out was walking.

He explained his method in an essay called "Night Walks," published on July 21, 1860 in his weekly magazine All the Year Round. He had tried fighting his insomnia from bed and lost. So he changed the plan. The fix, he wrote, was "getting up directly after lying down, and going out, and coming home tired at sunrise." A worried mind cannot fix itself by worrying more in bed. You have to get up and move.

Most nights he walked 12 to 20 miles. A friend called it "violent walking." Dickens wrote that on these walks his wandering self had "many miles upon miles of streets in which it could, and did, have its own solitary way."

Today, walking is one of the most powerful tools doctors have against depression. In 2012 a team of researchers pulled together eight high-quality studies of walking as a depression treatment. The effect was as strong as the antidepressants doctors actually prescribe.

The biggest test came from Duke University. The SMILE study took 202 adults with serious depression and split them into four groups: supervised exercise, home exercise, the drug Zoloft, or a placebo pill. After 16 weeks, the people who exercised did just as well as the people on Zoloft. A 2024 review of 75 studies covering 8,636 patients confirmed it. Walking should be one of the first things doctors try.

The reason is the thing Dickens stumbled onto in the dark. Depression runs on rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches. In 2015 Stanford researchers scanned people's brains before and after a 90-minute walk in a quiet park. The walkers had less activity in a part of the brain called the subgenual prefrontal cortex. That spot, deep behind your forehead, is the brain's worry loop. After the walk, the worry loop got quieter. The walkers said they felt less stuck inside their own heads. The brain scans agreed.

A walking body shuts up a noisy mind. The street takes attention, the walking rhythm fills the head, and the dark spells lose their grip. Dickens called the streets his cure because they gave his brain somewhere else to be. The science 150 years later says he had it right. Depression hates a brain that is moving.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

Very good impression of a bot response to support the status quo. "Doing nothing is an acceptable course of action. Again."

[Alabama Revolutionary🌹✊🏾 @TerrellSocialst]

A lot of liberal voters keep misunderstanding why so many of us on the left are not satisfied with “vote blue no matter who.”

It is not because we do not understand how dangerous Republicans are. We understand it very clearly. We see what Trump has done. We see what Republicans have done through the courts, through state legislatures, through attacks on voting rights, civil rights, workers, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women, education, and basic democracy itself.

The difference is that we are looking at the pattern.

Every few years, Democrats tell people, “Vote for us because Republicans are dangerous.” Then Democrats get power, but instead of passing the kind of transformative policies that would materially change people’s lives, they govern cautiously, protect the status quo, and tell struggling people to be patient.

Then people remain broke. Rent keeps going up. Groceries keep going up. Healthcare is still too expensive. Student debt is still crushing people. Wages are still too low. Billionaires and corporations keep getting richer. People lose faith. Voters get angry, discouraged, or stay home. Then Republicans come back into power even more extreme than before.

And then the same cycle starts all over again.

This is what the left is trying to explain.

We are not asking for more because we are spoiled. We are asking for more because the bare minimum is not stopping fascism. Fear alone cannot be the entire strategy. You cannot keep telling people democracy is on the line while refusing to use power in a way that makes democracy worth believing in.

If Democrats want people to keep showing up, they have to do more than say Republicans are worse. They have to prove that when they get power, they will fight for working people with the same urgency that Republicans fight for billionaires, corporations, judges, and control.

Because if Democrats keep winning power and failing to deliver transformative change, the country will keep swinging back to Republicans. And if it is not Trump, it will be someone just as bad, or worse.

That is the pattern.

That is why the left pushes so hard.

Not because we do not care about stopping Republicans, but because we understand that the only way to stop them long-term is to actually improve people’s lives.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

"Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated." The subtlety of a chainsaw slicing bread.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

A second memo from Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski says CBS News Radio is shutting down. Here's the memo:

Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026.

Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.  We understand how difficult this news is for our staff and their colleagues, who have worked side by side with us to cover some of the most significant stories of our time.

While this was a necessary decision, it was not an easy one.  A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service.  We are sharing this announcement now to fulfill our commitments to our radio partners and affiliates, which require advance notice of the service’s conclusion.

For nearly 100 years, CBS News Radio has delivered original reporting to the nation—from Edward R. Murrow’s World War II reports in London to today’s daily White House updates.  Our signature broadcast, “World News Roundup,” remains the longest-running newscast in the country.  CBS News Radio served as the foundation for everything we have built since 1927.

The coming weeks will be difficult for the team members who have worked tirelessly at CBS News Radio.  We are committed to supporting these valued colleagues with care and respect as we wind down operations.  They have been critical to our success and remain treasured friends and professionals.  We thank them deeply for their contributions.

Thank you all for your dedication and for the compassion you show one another as we move forward.

Bari and Tom

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This story cannot keep flying under the radar.

A ProPublica investigation uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they are supposed to regulate.

That is not just a conflict of interest. It is corruption, plain and simple.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history, by far.
https://t.co/X4WtU8a7Xq

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

Maria Machado's Nobel Peace Prize must be rolling its eyes like...

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

If ever a well placed HYFMC is needed, it is here.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: The United States Department of Defense has reportedly given Anthropic a 24-hour deadline for unrestricted military use of its AI.

Anthropic is resisting domestic surveillance of Americans and lethal applications.

Pete Hegseth allegedly threatened to label the company a “supply chain risk.”

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

Its 2026. By now everyone should recognise that they always accuse others of the things they themselves are guilty of.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Watch as MAGA loudmouth Randy Fine illegally casts votes for other members of the Florida House of Reps.

This is the same guy preaching to us about election integrity when he can’t even follow the rules himself.

He clearly looks around to make sure no one is watching, then rolls around to hastily press each vote button.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

"The Art of throwing people under the bus" is the next installment in the series.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

President Trump now says it was Attorney General Pam Bondi who insisted DNI Tulsi Gabbard attend the FBI raid in Georgia. Last night, he told NBC he didn’t know why she was there. And Gabbard said in a letter to Congress that “the president specifically directed my observance of the execution of the Fulton County search warrant.”

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

Dayum

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Never seen a ruling like this: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." https://t.co/qykE0glTVC

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

Speak in the language they use.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨HOLY SMOKES: Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Trump:

“Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

Europe is officially done pretending this is normal diplomacy.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

That type only responds to deliberate and forceful resistance.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Hoffman to Trotsky at Brest-Litvosk upon being told the Russians were withdrawing from the war and demobilizing the army: "Unerhört!"
The European capacity for being caught off-guard and scandalized in international affairs demands creative solutions. Eliot Cohen has an idea for sparing Greenland from an American invasion. It sounds reasonable to me. https://t.co/jJXgsm24s5

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

Even in the Caribbean

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Appeasing Trump always produces the opposite result the appeasers are hoping to achieve. There are thousands of examples over decades, but somehow people still don’t get it. Bill Cassidy and Europe found out yesterday. Someone else will find out today, then another tomorrow.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Appeasing Trump always produces the opposite result the appeasers are hoping to achieve. There are thousands of examples over decades, but somehow people still don’t get it. Bill Cassidy and Europe found out yesterday. Someone else will find out today, then another tomorrow.

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

@allenanalysis “Faced with a pattern of instrumental threat escalation characterised by conditional intent and strategic calibration of harm based on perceived resistance....
then clear boundaries, consistent consequences, and collective resistance are essential for mitigation."

[gsuite @GraemeSuite]

@CEMD @V_rainorshine @NobelPeaceOslo " a person who uses instrumental threats across domains,
escalates when opposition is weak,
retreats when consequences are credible and is a high-risk in permissive environments.
Clear boundaries, consistent consequences, and collective resistance are essential for mitigation."

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

@DHSgov Phew, that's a relief. Hey wait, you're not lying this time too, are you?